Excerpt from Auto-Biography of Sam Simple: Giving an Account of the Administration of the Affairs of the Simple Family From the Year 1829 to 1837, by His Aunt Deborah Crabstick, Together With a History of Some New and Important Experiments in Government Never Before Tried, Being a Method of Reduci

In short, plenty smiled upon us from all quarters, and my father, who was a little too fond of his ease, ceased to trouble himself about our affairs, but committed the management of them to his worthy spouse, not doubting that under her care all would come out well. But we were doomed to disappointment, for at this period my mother suddenly died and left us to the mercy of a kind but negligent parent, whose very virtues rendered him an easy prey to the ambitious and designing. Nor were we long left in doubt into whose hands our destinies had fallen, for one who had been a sort of hanger-on in the family, aspired to, and soon acquired the absolute control of all our affairs, this was none other than Aunt Deborah Crubstick whose character I will not attempt to describe, but leave the reader to form his own opinion of it from this narrative.

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